Czech intelligence officials said they had a report shortly after 9/11 that Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence official in April 2001. U.S. media reports, the FBI and the CIA subsequently revealed that the report was unsubstantiated. We speak with New York Times reporter Chris Hedges. [Includes transcript]

We go to Cancun, Mexico to hear from Pratap Chatterjee of CorpWatch.org on a private security firm recently contracted by the U.S. to train 6,500 Iraqis to guard oil pipelines in Iraq and to discuss the upcoming WTO ministerial meeting.

Leading Shiite Muslim politician Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim was among the 20 people reportedly killed this morning when a car bomb exploded outside a mosque in the holy city of Najaf. The bomb exploded near the Tomb of Ali, one of the holiest shrines for Shiite Muslims.

In one of the deadliest attacks ever directed at the United Nations, a car bomb exploded outside the UN headquarters in Baghdad yesterday killing 20. We talk to Irish peace activist Michael Birmingam who was inside the complex at the time of the blast. [Includes transcript]

The 55-year-old Brazilian diplomat had served in the United Nations since 1969. We play an interview conducted on September 27th, 2002 outside the United Nations in New York. In it, he says, "Should war erupt in Iraq, I believe the Iraqi people don’t deserve more suffering. They have suffered enough." [Includes transcript]

Shortly after the attack, we talked with Hans Von Sponeck, former assistant secretary general of the United Nations in Iraq. He said the attack came as little surprise. He also reveals that former UN chief weapons inspector Richard Butler kept chemical weapons on the UN compound in Baghdad. [Includes transcript]

Mazen Dana was killed covering a mortar attack on a prison in Baghdad for Reuters on Sunday. U.S. soldiers claimed they mistook the cameraman’s camera for a rocket propelled grenade launcher. The Pentagon said the soldiers accidentally "engaged a cameraman."

We go to Baghdad to speak with Guardian reporter Jamie Wilson. He recently wrote an article titled "Basra simmers in the heat while tempers boil over" that looks at the constant blackouts in post-Hussein Iraq. He talks about how Iraqis understand all too well what New Yorkers are going through now. [Includes transcript]

We speak with Boston Globe correspondent Bryan Bender who reveals that the CIA briefed the administration in February that the U.S. would face armed resistance from Iraqis following the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime and we go to Baghdad to hear from London Guardian reporter Jamie Wilson on the latest Iraqi resistance. [Includes transcript]